TDW 1471 - Original Grave of Abraham Lincoln

0:08 welcome everyone Adam the woo

0:08 here how are you

0:23 today it's my second channel daily Vlog

0:23 channel

0:29 it's it's like a little accordion it's a

0:30 daily

0:32 woo Who dripping this on me

0:58 yeah the final resting place of

0:58 President Lincoln

1:00 Straight

1:18 Ahead supposedly it is good luck to

1:18 touch Lincoln's

1:20 nose so I figured why

1:22 not inside this beautiful structure at

1:25 the cemetery President Lincoln was put

1:27 to rest and as you walk in

1:30 there's a lot to look at there are

1:32 statues there are history there are

1:33 plaques on the wall and of

1:37 course President

1:39 Lincoln and directly in front of

1:41 President

1:42 Lincoln are his sons and his wife also

1:46 buried

1:48 here it's

1:50 incredible President

1:53 Lincoln it's right there I'm around the

1:56 back side of the Tomb now walking down

1:58 these stairs and down at the bottom was

2:01 where the original temporary Vault once

2:04 stood Lincoln has resided in the Tomb at

2:06 the top of the hill for as far back as

2:09 most people remember but for a short

2:14 while he was placed here right after his

2:17 death from May 4th

2:21 1865 until December 21st of that same

2:25 year the original resting

2:28 place of President Lincoln

2:50 this is amazing to think about that

2:50 right after his death after he was

2:52 placed here thousands upon thousands of

2:55 people walked by this very grave peaked

3:00 in

3:01 there and the casket was just laid

3:04 there right in that door with the doors

3:08 open way

3:10 before the monument and the Tomb at the

3:12 top of the hill came to fruition now

3:15 just to recap at the bottom of this hill

3:18 on the back side of that fence is where

3:19 I just was the original grave for about

3:23 a half a year and then for six years

3:27 there was a temporary tomb built right

3:29 there until

3:32 1871 when they built this amazing

3:51 Monument they're trying to get in their

3:51 car with a coat hanger through the

3:54 window I feel for you I've been there

3:57 many many times

4:00 I'm all fueled up I've also got some

4:02 coffee and I try to wash it down with a

4:05 lot of water still drinking a ton of

4:06 water but I was tempted by going in the

4:09 store because look what they had I did

4:12 not realize this was officially back on

4:14 the market or maybe it's just an

4:15 Illinois thing so I had to get some

4:18 surge I know I love Mountain Dew but

4:19 surge is Nostalgia so I got plenty of

4:22 beverages in case you're wondering where

4:24 one lane ends and another begins don't

4:27 ask me I'm as confused as as you

4:31 are best driving music

4:42 ever have you ever seen a covered wagon

4:42 and then thought to yourself wow that is

4:44 a heck of a nice covered wagon where can

4:46 I find the world's largest covered wagon

4:50 right here right there right there

4:52 that's it nicknamed The Rail splitter 24

4:56 ft tall and 40 ft long and up in the

5:01 driver's seat is Abraham Lincoln let me

5:04 ask you a question is it safe to be

5:06 operating this piece of Machinery while

5:09 reading a book Abe is that the most wise

5:13 decision you could come up with steering

5:15 a h drawn carriage while doing a little

5:19 bit of

5:20 learning that old Abe never stops

5:30 learning what the heck is that up there

5:30 there is a telephone booth on the top of

5:33 that building who can even use that

5:35 thing Superman when you think of Atlanta

5:39 you immediately think of Georgia but

5:41 there's also an Atlanta in Illinois

5:44 which is home

5:45 to the world's

5:47 happiest water

5:50 tower how can you be in a bad mood

5:53 passing through this small little

5:55 Illinois

5:57 Community a

6:06 look at this old farmhouse right there

6:06 it looks like something almost out of a

6:09 horror film but there's something like

6:12 really cool about it it's creepy but the

6:15 same

6:16 time I kind of dig it look at that

6:20 thing right here amongst the

6:43 cool stopped off here at Bloomington

6:43 Illinois's Evergreen Cemetery there's a

6:46 couple interesting things here

6:48 including this Tombstone right here

6:51 Ripley Believe It or Not has deemed

6:53 Richard L Jones headstone to be the

6:56 longest Epitaph ever carved in Granite I

7:01 do not choose to be a common man it is

7:03 my right to be uncommon if I can that's

7:07 pretty unusual right you think now in

7:09 this day and age the record has been

7:11 broken and there is another headstone

7:13 with more words than

7:28 know this next grave is a little bit

7:28 more difficult to find find I'm sure you

7:30 have seen the movie or maybe even

7:32 perhaps read the book The Wizard of Oz

7:35 the lead character Dorothy Gail was

7:37 based on a real little girl who died at

7:41 a very very young age and her uncle who

7:44 wrote the book named the character

7:46 Dorothy after her and her

7:49 grave is right over

8:00 there the book was published in 1900

8:00 just a little over a year after she

8:03 passed away Dorothy

8:06 Louise the daughter of Mr and M

8:10 Gage and more recently they have put

8:13 another headstone which is just on the

8:17 front side of the original one stating a

8:20 little bit more factual information for

8:23 those who visit the cemetery

8:48 here I Dro My Keys wow look at

8:48 that now that's an interesting

8:57 headstone that might be the coolest sign

8:57 for a bar I've ever seen it's like a

9:00 scoreboard this is the small town of

9:02 Leroy Illinois this is the first place I

9:06 have memories of growing up as a child I

9:09 lived here from 4 5 6 7 and 8 from 1977

9:13 to

9:15 1981 and the water tower off in the

9:18 distance rings a bell in my childlike

9:20 mind as well as this building which was

9:23 formerly the Christian church where my

9:25 father was the preacher I remember this

9:28 gazebo very well it's amazing even at

9:31 that young age how I could formulate

9:32 memories like the Water Tower and the

9:35 front of the church are etched in my

9:37 head Forever This is now designated as

9:39 the Leroy performing arts and media

9:42 center but they still have the stained

9:43 glass windows and look at this does this

9:46 remind you of a church billboard of

9:50 course it does that's not a performing

9:51 arts and Center media billboard all the

9:54 pews have been removed you can still see

9:57 part of the congregation Hall there the

9:59 doors are locked but you can look in the

10:01 window you would walk basically into

10:03 that brick wall you take a right and

10:05 you'd go up this little stair well right

10:08 there on the far right and that would

10:11 take you into the auditorium of the

10:12 church there is basically one police

10:14 officer in the entire town children

10:16 don't even lock their bikes up here and

10:18 the entire police department is located

10:21 in that one little door so what is this

10:23 old building remind you of the moment

10:25 the lightning strikes the conducting

10:26 hook channeling it into the flex

10:28 capacitor

10:31 everything will be

10:39 fine it's incredible how your mind works

10:39 and how memories flood back to you as

10:41 soon as you see something that you

10:44 haven't seen in over three decades

10:47 almost three and a half decades I have

10:49 not been here but just seeing this

10:53 really makes me remember from when I was

10:55 a child and things that I haven't

10:57 thought about in so long come flooding

11:00 back into your brain this whole town

11:02 square the

11:05 church it really just it's amazing to me

11:09 how the mind

11:12 works I it's unfathomable to even

11:14 describe I apologize for that rather

11:18 incoherent rambling of my thoughts right

11:20 now but kind of kind of beside myself at

11:23 this

11:24 moment crazy now since I was so young

11:27 back then there's only a few key things

11:29 from the the town I remember but one of

11:31 them definitely was this former Dairy

11:34 Queen in fact you can still see the

11:36 drivethru lane and the reason I know

11:39 this Dairy Queen was here is because the

11:41 house my family lived in was right down

11:44 there right here on the corner of North

11:46 Chestnut and East Washington

11:49 Street this house right here my family

11:51 lived in in this yard I learned to ride

11:55 a bicycle in that yard

12:03 this was also the town I lived in when I

12:03 got this little guy my buddy George and

12:06 we lived in the house right up here

12:08 together this is where we first met

12:11 that's

12:12 it that's it right there

12:16 George we're home

12:39 am I believing my eyes right now is

12:39 there really a

12:42 FIS in front of me that's going to be me

12:45 in about 3.8 seconds oh yes

13:04 I've arrived in Champagne Illinois and

13:04 in front of me is a classic old movie

13:06 theater called the Virginia and rumor

13:09 has it that Roger Ebert of cisal and

13:12 eert fame was born in this town and used

13:14 to go see movies as a child right inside

13:18 there now these Vlogs are in no way

13:19 shape or form feature films or movies

13:22 but you got to wonder if Roger eert were

13:24 still alive and here today what would he

13:26 think of these daily vlogs

13:35 that's what I like to

13:35 hear Vlog over

TDW 1471 - Original Grave of Abraham Lincoln

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